On Monday 11 February 2002 21:32, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write: > > Hello all, > > > > It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I > > have a debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file > > to use an internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that > > dselect is ignoring that entry and trying the public address instead. > > Does anyone know how to make dselect look at the hosts file, my host.conf > > has the entry : > > > > order hosts,bind > > > > so I would think that it would resolve to the address in the host file. > > I'm not entirely sure how this works, but there's a very good chance > that /etc/nsswitch.conf is more significant than /etc/host.conf. What > does the `hosts' line say from nsswitch.conf?
hosts files dns John
